California has a handful of new pay disclosure laws going into effect in 2023. To get  a sense of the impact those measures could have, we spoke with former California State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, author of the Golden State's 2015 Fair Pay Act, which forces employers to prove that pay disparities between workers are not due to gender. 

A new executive order from President Joe Biden aims to bolster U.S. privacy protections in a way that ensures such data transfers comply with EU laws, thus theoretically streamlining the flow of that data across the Atlantic to the U.S. 

Such transfers have been a troubled and complex issue for years . On today's show we are joined by Crowell & Moring Senior Counsel Christiana State, who focuses on privacy and cybersecurity from the firm’s San Francisco office. She specializes in and advises on issues related to technology and commercial transactions, and M&A corporate activities like the ones we are talking about today. 

In 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal law that essentially allowed only Nevada to have legal sports wagering. Dozens of states have since legalized either in-person or online sports betting, or both. But California, the nation's biggest potential market, has not been one of the. 

Which brings us to two very hotly contested opposing ballot measures that would legalize online sports wagering here in California, Propositions 26 and 27. To date, the two campaigns have spent a staggering amount of money trying to persuade voters for or against these proposals. Alas, if polls are to be believed it might all be for nothing because there is every indication both of these ballot proposals are going to go down to defeat. 

But you could say it is the safest of bets that the parties most interested in bringing online sports wagering to California are not going to fold their hands and walk away. 

To help us suss out what is going on with these two measures and what we can likely expect to happen after November 8th, I’m joined today by Ari Plachta, who covers politics and government for the Sacramento Bee and who has written extensively on this issue.